{"id":129,"date":"2006-01-05T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-01-05T19:00:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T02:00:24","slug":"the-work-of-toddlerhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"The Work of Toddlerhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_8785-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_8785-1.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_8785-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 8785-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_8788.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_8788.jpg','popup','width=698,height=526,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_8788-tm.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 8788\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two to twenty seconds is all I have, at each chance, to capture a slice of toddlerhood on paper. I grab one of their washable markers and chubby brushes off the lawn and just go at it. He is distracted by the sprinkler system, I am distracted from the endless cleanup that follows him. Mutual satisfaction. Alas, only two gestures and he&#8217;s clawing at my brush, pen and paper; his own isn&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two to twenty seconds is all I have, at each chance, to capture a slice of toddlerhood on paper. I grab one of their washable markers and chubby brushes off the lawn and just go at it. He is distracted by the sprinkler system, I am distracted from the endless cleanup that follows him. Mutual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}